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Who wrote “The Perfume” (Das Parfüm)?
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Answer: Patrick Süßkind
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Who wrote “The Island of the Day Before”?
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Answer: Umberto Eco
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Who wrote “The Foucault’s Pendulum”?
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Answer: Umberto Eco
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Who wrote “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”?
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Answer: Douglas [Noel] Adams
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Who wrote “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”?
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Answer: Douglas [Noel] Adams
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Who invented Dirk Gently?
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Answer: Douglas [Noel] Adams
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Who wrote “Girlfriend in a Coma”?
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Answer: Douglas Coupland
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Who wrote “Generation X”?
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Answer: Douglas Coupland
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Which Italian author wrote “The Name of the Rose”?
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Answer: Umberto Eco
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Who wrote “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”?
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Answer: James Joyce
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Who wrote “Ada, or Ardor”?
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Answer: Vladimir Nabokov
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Who wrote “The World According to Garp”?
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Answer: John Irving
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What’s the name of the author of fantasy novel “The Last Unicorn”, which has also been made to a feature length animation movie?
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Answer: Peter [S.] Beagle
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Schmendrick the Wizard is trying to control magic in which fantasy novel?
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Answer: The Last Unicorn
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Who’s the heroic, albeit amateur wizard in “The Last Unicorn”?
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Answer: Schmendrick [The Wizard]
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“Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one, and cornu, a horn.” is a quote from which book?
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Answer: The Last Unicorn
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Mabruk and King Haggard are characters of which fantasy novel?
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Answer: The Last Unicorn
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Who wrote “Ulysses”?
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Answer: James Joyce
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Who’s the author of robot biography “Roderick” and “Roderick at Random”?
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Answer: John Sladek
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Who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”?
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Answer: J.D. Salinger
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Holden Caulfield is a character from which novel?
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Answer: The Catcher in the Rye
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Which famous nihilist philosopher wrote “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
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Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who wrote “Hackers”?
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Answer: Steven Levy
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“The Heart of Gold” is a space ship appearing in which novel?
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Zaphod Beeblebrox appears in which book?
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Ford Prefect is an intergalactic reporter for which publication?
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Catch-22” is a novel by whom?
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Answer: Joseph Heller
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Who’s the author of “On the Road”?
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Answer: Jack Kerouac
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Who wrote “Subterraneans”?
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Answer: Jack Kerouac
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Which wrote “Faust”?
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Answer: [Johann Wolfgang Von] Goethe
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Who wrote “Sorrows of Young Werther” (“Die Leiden des jungen Werthers”)?
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Answer: [Johann Wolfgang Von] Goethe
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Carl Bernstein and who made the Watergate scandal public and wrote “All the President’s Men”?
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Answer: Bob Woodward
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Bob Woodward and who made the Watergate scandal public and wrote “All the President’s Men”?
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Answer: Carl Bernstein
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Which Scientific American author is best-known for his mathematical puzzles and diversions?
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Answer: Martin Gardner
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Who wrote “The Psychology of Computer Programming”?
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Answer: Gerald [M.] Weinberg
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Who wrote “The Magic Mountain” (“Der Zauberberg”)?
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Answer: Thomas Mann
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Who wrote “Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family”?
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Answer: Thomas Mann
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Who wrote “Lolita”?
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Answer: Vladimir Nabokov
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Which popular cartoonist wrote “Dilbert Future”?
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Answer: Scott Adams
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Dolores Haze is a character from which novel?
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Answer: Lolita
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is the main-character in which novel?
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Answer: The Perfume
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Who is the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s “Der Zauberberg”/”The Magic Mountain”?
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Answer: Hans Castorp
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In which year was J. D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye”, born?
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Answer: 1919
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Who wrote the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
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Answer: Edward Albee
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Who wrote “Death of a Salesman”?
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Answer: Arthur Miller
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Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”?
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Answer: William Shakespeare
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Who wrote “Pygmalion”?
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Answer: George Bernard Shaw
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Who wrote “Waiting for Godot”?
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Answer: Samuel Beckett
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Who wrote “Much Ado About Nothing”?
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Answer: William Shakespeare
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Who wrote “3 Tall Women”?
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Answer: Edward Albee
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Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
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Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
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Answer: Harper Lee
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Who wrote “The Time Machine”?
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Answer: H. G. Wells
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Who wrote “Brave New World”?
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Answer: Aldous Huxley
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Who wrote “Color Purple”?
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Answer: Alice Walker
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Who wrote “The Martian Chronicles”?
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Answer: Ray Bradbury
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Who wrote sci-fi epos “Foundation”?
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Answer: Isaac Asimov
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Who wrote “1984”?
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Answer: George Orwell
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Who wrote “The Lord of the Rings”?
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Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Who wrote “A Brief History of Time”?
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Answer: Stephen Hawking
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Who wrote “The Universe in a Nutshell”?
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Answer: Stephen Hawking
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Who wrote “Lord of the Flies”?
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Answer: William Gerald Golding
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Which novel by George Orwell has been made into an animated movies, starring animals?
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Answer: Animal Farm
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Who wrote “Oliver Twist”?
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Answer: Charles Dickens
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Who wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?
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Answer: Mark Twain
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Who’s the author of “Treasure Island”?
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Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Who’s the author of “Robinson Crusoe”?
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Answer: Daniel Defoe
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Who wrote “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?
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Answer: Jules Verne
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Who wrote “Journey to the Center of the Earth”?
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Answer: Jules Verne
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Who wrote “The Idiot”?
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Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Who wrote “The Brothers Karamazov”?
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Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Book “Les Liaisons dangereuses” is from which year?
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Answer: 1782
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Who wrote “Madame Bovary”?
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Answer: Gustave Flaubert
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Who wrote “Steppenwolf”?
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Answer: Hermann Hesse
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When was Camus’ “The Stranger” written?
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Answer: 1946
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Who’s the author of “The Stranger”?
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Answer: Albert Camus
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Who wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”?
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Answer: Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls”?
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Answer: Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote “A Farewell to Arms”?
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Answer: Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote “The Sun Also Rises”?
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Answer: Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote “Islands in the Stream”?
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Answer: Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote “Of Mice and Men”?
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Answer: John Steinbeck
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Who wrote “A Tale of Two Cities”?
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Answer: Charles Dickens
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Who’s Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous character?
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Answer: Sherlock Holmes
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Who created Sherlock Holmes?
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Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Who created Miss Marple?
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Answer: Agatha Christie
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Who wrote “South by Java Head”?
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Answer: Alistair MacLean
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Who wrote “The Mystery of the Banshee Towers”?
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Answer: Enid Blyton
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Who wrote “Five Go To Mystery Moor”?
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Answer: Enid Blyton
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Who wrote “The Clue of the Old Album”?
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Answer: Carolyn Keene
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Who wrote “The Shore Road Mystery”?
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Answer: Franklin W. Dixon
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Who wrote “Second Foundation”?
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Answer: Isaac Asimov
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Who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”?
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Answer: Ken Kesey
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Who wrote “Double Deal”?
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Answer: Frederick Forsyth
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Who wrote “The Seventh Secret”?
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Answer: Irving Wallace
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Who wrote “The Bourne Identity”?
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Answer: Robert Ludlum
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Who wrote “Honour Among Thieves”?
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Answer: Jeffrey Archer
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Who wrote “The Vicar of Wakefield”?
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Answer: Oliver Goldsmith
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Who wrote “Love Story”?
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Answer: Erich Segal
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Who wrote “Jaws”?
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Answer: Peter Benchley
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Who’s the author of “The Godfather”?
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Answer: Mario Puzo
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Who wrote “The Fist of God”?
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Answer: Frederick Forsyth
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Who wrote “Eye of the Needle”?
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Answer: Ken Follett
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Who wrote “Kim”?
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Answer: Rudyard Kipling
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Who wrote “The Odessa File”?
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Answer: Frederick Forsyth
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